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Technoteacher - Day 1
Robot Index
Build your own index of familiar robots. You can divide them into three groups:
- Robots serving us (at home, at school)
- Robots serving the community (city or town)
- Robots serving the whole world (including space robots!).
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Then subdivide the robots in each group into six system families:
- Processors
- Sensors
- Vision Systems
- Transportation Systems
- Effectors
- Communications Systems
The Human Processor
Organize a brainstorming session with students on the following brain functions: thought, movement, sensation, hearing and sight. Observe how all these actions are controlled by the brain. Act out these activities. Explain that in the case of robots, a "brain" called the processor plays the same role.
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Write each of these words on slips of paper. Divide the students into teams and have each team pick a slip of paper. Each team will then have to name five verbs relating to the word it drew (e.g. for thought: writing, thinking, imagining, finding, etc.; for movement: running, walking, spinning, etc.). |
Next, find objects associated with these functions (e.g. thinking = book or drawing; movement = ball; sensation = radiator; hearing = a Walkman; sight = a telescope). This exercise will help students make connections and get them using...their own processor!
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